Robert C. Armstrong

For other people named Robert Armstrong, see Robert Armstrong (disambiguation).

Robert Armstrong
Born	Robert Calvin Armstrong
Alma mater	Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1973; B.ChE., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1970
Scientific career
Fields	Rheology
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	Obtaining constitutive equations for macro-molecular fluids from molecular theories  (1973)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Byron Bird
Doctoral students	Gareth H. McKinley[1]
Website	energy.mit.edu/profile/robert-armstrong

Robert Calvin Armstrong is the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative and the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering.^[2] He has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1973, and served as head of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1996 to 2007. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for conducting outstanding research on non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, co-authoring landmark textbooks, and providing leadership in chemical engineering education. In 2020, he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[3][4]

Armstrong finished a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering Degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1970 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1973 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, also in Chemical Engineering.^[5]

References

1. McKinley, Gareth Huw (1991). Nonlinear dynamics of viscoelastic flows in complex geometries. mit.edu (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/13921. OCLC 24882667.
2. "Robert Armstrong | MIT Energy Initiative". Energy.mit.edu. 2019-10-21. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
3. "Dr. Robert C. Armstrong". NAE Website. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
4. "Robert C. Armstrong". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
5. "Robert C. Armstrong". AIChE. 20 March 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2021.